Guest curator and Textile Arts LA member Jo Lauria has offered us a private tour of the exhibit A Step Beyond: Contemporary Footwear, Functional to Fanciful.

The tour is Friday, April 3rd from 11:30 to 12:30 pm.

The show is on on view in Ben Maltz Gallery until April 25.

The exhibition presents a chronology of fashionable shoes over the past 100 years as well as focusing on footwear from a variety of perspectives, including custom or limited-edition shoes handcrafted for private clients, and shoes mass-produced for the consumer market. In addition, a section of the exhibition features artists and illustrators who use the shoe as a protagonist in their individual artistic narratives. 

ALSO SCHEDULED

Saturday  3/28  2 pm   Otis Forum      FREE

Lecture:  Innovation and Style in 20th and 21st Century Shoes

 Costume and textile curator and historian  Melissa Leventon will speak on key developments designers, and trends in footwear since 1900.

Artists, designers, and collectors in the Exhibition:

Alex Becerra, Gaza Bowen, Helen Chung, Twin Daniel, Steven Evans, Alexandra Felix, Phyllis Green, Amara Hark-Weber, Chaz Inouye, Paul Kaufman, Jacob Kim, David Leitch, Melissa Leventon, Anna Miller, Patsy Pitts, Luis Ramirez, Rebecca Reisman, Karen Rigoli, Wes Shugart, Lucinda Smith, Lisa Sorrell, Elisabeth Thorsen, UNITED NUDE, Gregory Weir-Quiton, Pamela Weir-Quiton, Joshua Wong, and Allison Zahorik